By Jacqueline Thomsen. A study released today has found that an individual’s genetic makeup can have a direct effect on the level of education achieved by that individual, the first time that researchers have found such a relationship. Read more...
By Jacqueline Thomsen. Voters in Arizona may have a chance over the next few years to prevent future state cuts to higher education -- with a catch. Read more...
By Jacqueline Thomsen. When students at Indiana University at Bloomington are asked to describe consent, they can often recite the lyrics from a student-written musical. Read more...
By Jacqueline Thomsen. As the start of the academic year approaches, parents of incoming freshmen wonder what they should be doing to prepare their children. Read more...
By Jake New. A University of Alabama sorority has removed a recruitment video from the Internet after an op-ed decrying the clip as being too sexual and lacking diversity resulted in widespread attention and criticism for the chapter. Read more...
By Jake New. Officials at Henderson State University on Friday defended the university’s decision to ban “sagging pants” on campus, amid concerns from students that the ban targeted black students. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The messy unwinding of Corinthian Colleges was an unprecedented dance among various actors: the U.S. Department of Education, state attorneys general, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and buyers like ECMC’s Zenith Group -- not to mention members of Congress and student and consumer groups. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration is planning new regulations that will set clearer standards for discharging the federal student loans of defrauded borrowers and give the U.S. Department of Education new tools to recoup money from colleges where it finds misconduct. Read more...
By Anne Curzan. As we get ready for the academic year to begin (or, in some cases, are already in the first week or two of the fall semester), folks have been posting or reposting some great advice for new faculty members and their mentors. More...
By Ben Yagoda. There are actually, in my experience, two giveaways for crummy screenplays or teleplays. The first is the extent to which characters address each other by name. If you’re writing dialogue with no ear for actual speech, it sort of makes sense to put down lines like “This isn’t about the money, Brian,” or “I long to see you, Ellen,” or “Let’s get one thing straight, Henry,” but that’s not the way real people talk. More...
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